First, we want to thank the students, teachers, principals, superintendents, and the
Israeli Ministry of Education for their active participation in this project. Analyses
and sections of this book have been published in numerous academic journals and
as scholarly chapters, foundation reports, grants, and national Israeli reports. Our
co-authors on these other publications have been Anat Zeira, Amiram Vinokur,
Mona Khoury-Kassabari, Ronald O. Pitner, Muhammad Haj-Yahia, Roxana
Marachi, Heather Ann Meyer, Ilan Roziner, Mark Weisman, and Suzanne PerkinsHart. We have learned from each of our collaborators and thank them for their
contributions. We also thank Anat Zeira, Michelle Rosemond, Susan Stone, Jikang
Chen, Giovanni Arteaga, and Dianne Shammas for reading drafts of this manuscript
and providing valuable feedback.

We’d like to acknowledge the countless committee reviewers in the Israeli Ministry of Education and at the University of Michigan, the anonymous reviewers of
all our peer-reviewed manuscripts, and the countless graduate students and colleagues not mentioned who gave us advice throughout the project. For support of
this project, we thank the Israeli Ministry of Education, the Office of the Chief Scientist (especially Nora Cohen and Zmira Mevarech), the Hebrew University, the
University of Michigan, the University of Southern California, the W. K. Kellogg
Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the National Academy of Education, the
Fulbright Foundation, the city of Herzliya, and the William T. Grant Foundation.

Thanks to our many friends and academic peers who have been patient with us
during the countless hours we engaged in deep deliberations conducting this study
and writing the book. Special thanks go to Peter K. Smith, whose work has influenced our thinking. Professor Smith has taught us so much about school violence
in Europe and globally. Special thanks to Mike Furlong, who not only generously
shared with us his ideas, instruments, and insights but also allowed us to use his

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